What Physically Caused The 2023 East Palestine Ohio Train Derailment Disaster
03/13/23
“What physically caused the 2023 East Palestine Ohio train derailment disaster?”
The 2023 East Palestine Ohio train derailment disaster has been burned into the collective memory of Americans. But what exactly caused it? While we have no definitive answers so far, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board investigation is currently pointing to an overheated wheel bearing as the root cause. Supposedly, as the car approached East Palestine, the overheated wheel jumped to over 125 degrees celsius while the outside was a blistering cold -12 degrees. This jumped an alarm, which caused the engineer on the train to apply the brakes, ultimately leading to a derailment. This is What Physically Caused The 2023 East Palestine Ohio Train Derailment Disaster.
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